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Cherry-picked history and ideology-driven outcomes: Bruen’s originalist distortions

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Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther chair in American history at Fordham University and adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School. Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Apparently, that claim continues to a be a promise as yet unfilled.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. Curtis, who grew up in Georgia with cognitive and developmental disabilities, always hoped to leave these facilities and move back into her community. Forty-nine years before the leaked opinion in Dobbs v.

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“Vote Reparations”: Law Professor Calls For The Votes of Black Americans To Count Twice

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Featured prominently on the law school’s website , the article pushes a similar proposal made in the Washington Post in 2015 by Theodore Johnson, a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. Ironically, the proposals would upend decades of civil rights litigation to defend the “one man, one vote” principle.

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A League of Their Own: The Rollins Decision Follows a Troubling Pattern at the DOJ

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He also faces other possible legal action, of course, including potential state charges in Georgia for election law violations.) And selective prosecution complaints are notoriously difficult to litigate. With Rollins, after an investigation found that she lied to investigators, the DOJ refused to file any charges at all.